While using the new base: Any item with the red border that reads "OLD BASE!", WILL NOT currently work on the new bases. However, anything that is not on a tile like the image to the right will work on the new bases. Event items will have a small "EI" in the righthand corner. LEI's will have a small "LEI" in the corner as well.

While using the old base: If you are using the old base, you will not see any changes to your inventory if you purchase any "new base" items. So if you are wondering where new item purchases, grants, trades and donations are in your inventory, they will not appear unless you are running on the new base. This is because everything for the old bases are running on a split database as the plan is to purge this from the system once item conversion is complete. Switching to the new base allows you to jump to the new database and all your items will be view able (both new and old)

Conversion Ticker
See the full progress made on item conversion as it happens!

Hair Types
34/34 converted
100% complete!!!

Shop Commons
148/159 converted
93% complete

Event Items
90/91 converted
98% complete

Gachapon Items
28/32 converted
87% converted

LEI's
20/31 converted
64% complete

All Other Trinket Item
10/10 converted
100% complete

Totals:
324/357
90% Complete

These counts do not include recolors. Only individual item types. For example, Basic tee in pink, white, green, and black would be counted as one item "Basic Tee" while compiling the list of items.[/img]

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How are items chosen to be converted?
Items will be chosen by the following priority
Easiest First - To get more progress made, the easiest items will be completed first. Items with sleeves, multiple poses, etc will be tackled after the less difficult items are handled.

We'll have a team working through shop commons while I worn on LEIs, and Event Items. In the end, we'll all tackle the difficult items together to get them out of the way.

New Items? They may come sporadically. However, our primary focus at this time is getting the new base conversion process complete or nearly complete before moving on to new items.

New Donation Items? Soon, we will be re-introducing LEIs and other limited-time trinket items. We realize that we wanted to wait to offer them again until conversion was complete. However, if the site is bringing in more funds, we will be able to pay artists6 to complete items more quickly, thus speeding up the process exponentially as right now, these costs are coming out of pocket and I can only personally afford to fund so much. It will also help with adding new features and improvements the site so badly needs. This way we are back up to speed sooner rather than much, much later!

Can I suggest an item? Feel free to make item suggestions, however... our staff will be choosing items mostly on their level of difficultly at this time.

Can I help? We can use every bit of help we can get! As of now, these positions are volunteer only, compensation will be through site currency and items.

- Item Recolorists: You'll help to recolor items as they are completed. You will need a minimum of Adobe Photoshop CS2 to assist with this project.

- Item Artists: At this time, I can only take on additional artists as a volunteer only position. Depending on where we stand with donations, we may be able to take on another hired help.

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March 4rd, 2016
Chapskirts are completed, and there are new colors availble! The Faction Suit will be updated soon to match these new colors and a new more masculine top will be coming soon to complete this set.

March 3rd, 2016
All hairstyles are now complete (with exception to the beard item in the hair shop)! Setting us to 60% total completion!

February 10th, 2016
From the 2nd Birthday Event: Ducky Ball Caps, Party Hat, and Presents. Also, from the 1st birthday, Textwall.

From the Homecoming Event, Boutineer and Corsage, Disco Ball, Avarician Royalty, Balloon Arch, Hibiscus Bloom, and Homecoming Ribbon. There are still two more items from this Event that need converted (balloons and summer sweets)

Valentines "mini event" items from 2009 are converted. Newbies, we'll be giving some away during the Sweet 'N Sassy event!

Note for today: There is a backlog of about 15 items that the graphics have been converted for but the images are not set up with the items yet. ALSO! Training for artists is complete and our new artists will be pumping out commons!

February 4th, 2016
LEI: Avarician Summer is MOSTLY converted. The Ducky innertubes need to be redrawn, but all other poses should be working.

EI: Fireworks and Sparklers are now converted.

Prosthetic Elf Ears have been converted since beginning of the project, but the thumbnail now reflects the change.

February 3rd, 2016

Newspaper Bottoms (formerly newspaper loincloth, but now unisex)

January 27th, 2016
Pirate Eye Patch (now you can choose to cover either eye!)

January 26th, 2016
All geta are converted as well as the broken images for thumbnails fixed!

Day 4 and 5 Minty Fresh items are complete and working!

Although the Bishi hairs have been converted eons ago, the thumbnails are now updated to reflect that!

January 21st, 2016
Jade Rabbit Hairpin and Spring Lolita Dress has been converted. Completed for training of new artist staff
I also made some recolors of the spring lolita dress as well those will get uploaded soonish.

January 17th, 2016
As of today, all wing packs are converted.

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Percentage Milestones!
Because I only calculated the total percentage of items that needed converting recently, I do not have an accurate count of where we stood prior to January 2016. Probably close to the 45% range.

Could we get the Rogue Warrior EI finished? It has three of the four poses converted, just lacking the sword.

Yup!

That's next on my list after getting those mint-chocolate christmas items up. There's some other LEIs that aren't fully compatible with the new bases yet, in that I made a pose or two but not everything works properly. I want to go through those and fix them before going on to converting more.

Could we get the Rogue Warrior EI finished? It has three of the four poses converted, just lacking the sword.

Yup!

That's next on my list after getting those mint-chocolate christmas items up. There's some other LEIs that aren't fully compatible with the new bases yet, in that I made a pose or two but not everything works properly. I want to go through those and fix them before going on to converting more.

Okay, I just wanted to made sure it was known that it wasn't completely converted yet. I know I tend to forget things like that, when I do something partway then leave it for later.